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We live in an era which, rather than expanding our horizons, seems increasingly intent on narrowing the life of the mind. We have, in effect, returned to a digital telegraph: curt lines flung across glowing screens. ---------- The author is Pablo Mera, - Pablo E.M.G. to the English-speaking world—though a few old friends still call him “Trompo.” He adores Metallica and Oasis, he is still a rugger at heart, blood type A+, and he published over 13,000 posts upon his blog: http://pablomera.blogspot.com. You may write to him at mailto:tromp@hotmail.com

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Episode thumbnail for The Lucid Misfit's Handbook -The review of my Book in Voice

May 6, 2026

The Lucid Misfit's Handbook -The review of my Book in Voice

<p>Only on Amazon:</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B0GYNYJFD5/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_top?</p><p>_encoding=UTF8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;reviewerType=all_reviews</p><p>Pablo Mera a.k.a. as Pablo E.M.G. is a Uruguayan-born writer and longtime resident of Paraguay whose life has moved through sport, business, reinvention, family devotion, setbacks, observation, andpersistent hope.<br>A former rugby player, entrepreneur, culturalparticipant, and lifelong student of human behavior, he writes with unusual candor about dignity, masculinity, suffering, resilience, love, and the architecture of a meaningful future.<br>His style blends philosophical reflection, lived experience, sharp humor, emotional honesty, and practical wisdom.<br>The Lucid Misfit’s Handbook is his first major English-language work.</p><p><br></p><p>ToVanina.<br>&quot;Life is astonishing, sometimes, in the wayit works. Not in the grand, providential sense of the word — I amnot speaking of miracles or destinies — but in the smaller,stranger sense of how it occasionally assembles two people who havebeen scarred by identical wounds and places them in each other&#39;sorbit, and then watches, with what I can only imagine is somethinglike satisfaction, as those two people discover that their wounds,rather than multiplying each other&#39;s pain, have made them peculiarly,precisely, and unexpectedly equipped to offer each other somethingrare.&quot;</p><p><br></p><p>There are books written to entertain. There are books written toinstruct. There are books written to flatter the spirit withtemporary comfort. And then, on rare occasions, there are bookswritten because a human being has wrestled long enough with life toowe the truth something.</p><p>The Lucid Misfit’s Handbook belongs to that rarer category.</p><p>Its author writes not as a theorist insulated from consequence, butas a participant in the beautiful disorder of ordinary existence. Heknows disappointment without worshipping it. He knows hope withouttrivializing struggle. He understands that dignity is costly, freedomis internal, and identity cannot be outsourced to applause.</p><p>These pages speak to those who have felt strangely awake in a culturedevoted to distraction. To those who have sensed that conformityoften comes dressed as success. To those who have suffered, stumbled,rebuilt, and quietly continued.</p><p>What makes this work distinctive is not merely its insight, but itstone: humane without sentimentality, masculine without hardness,reflective without paralysis, wounded without self-pity, and hopefulwithout naïveté.</p><p>The lucid misfit, as presented here, is not an exile from life. He isoften its clearest witness.</p><p>Read this book slowly. Mark its sentences. Argue with it wherenecessary. Return to it when seasons change. Its best passages willmeet you differently each time.</p><p>Some books decorate a shelf. Others accompany a life.</p><p>This one intends the latter.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

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March 12, 2026

Manhattan and the Probability of an Encounter

<p>New York City is enormous. Its metropolitan area is home to nearly twenty million people.</p><p>Yet there is a fascinating detail: the island of Manhattan alone concentrates roughly two million inhabitants— one of the most intense human densities on the planet.</p><p>So today I shall employ a somewhat unusual unit of measurement. Not kilometres. Not millions.</p><p>I shall use the <strong>Manhattan Unit</strong>.</p><p>An island full of people walking, talking, dreaming, and occasionally colliding with destiny at every corner.</p><p>Because large numbers—the truly large ones—present a curious problem: we pronounce them with ease… yet we almost never grasp their true dimension.</p><p>For instance.</p><p> to avoid confusion, we shall speak in <strong>thousands of millions</strong>.</p><p>Now let us attempt a small mental experiment.</p><p>Imagine South America composed entirely of Manhattan islands placed side by side, each with the same population density.</p><p>We would obtain approximately <strong>502 thousand million people</strong> living there.</p><p>Yes. Only in South America.</p><p>And if we filled the whole surface of <strong>South America, Central America, and North America</strong> with Manhattans, the number would climb to <strong>1.213 thousand million people</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p>Large numbers begin to feel strange, do they not?</p><p>...</p><p><br></p><p>In <strong>2016</strong>, one of the most serious calculations estimated that the <strong>observable universe contains roughly two trillion galaxies</strong>.</p><p>If each galaxy were a person… the Milky Way would be <strong>one individual walking across a thousand Manhattans placed together</strong>.</p><p>And when we speak of potentially habitable planets across all those galaxies… numbers cease to be comparable with any island.</p><p>We are speaking of <strong>tens of trillions of planets</strong>— numbers with <strong>eighteen zeros</strong>.</p><p>Between <strong>twenty and eighty trillion</strong>, according to that study.</p><p>And quite possibly more today, ten years later.</p><p>Planets that may have experienced their own mass extinctions. Their own biological resets. Their own evolutionary experiments.</p><p>It would be rather unreasonable to imagine that <strong>technological intelligence occurred only once</strong> in all that vastness.</p><p>What may indeed be extraordinarily rare… is <strong>coincidence</strong>.</p><p>Perhaps the great silence of the universe is not an absence of life.</p><p>Perhaps it is simply a matter of <strong>timing</strong>.</p><p>The cosmos may be full of voices… yet each one speaks in <strong>different centuries</strong>.</p><p>And so we arrive at one final reflection.</p><p>That, in a small corner of the Milky Way, a species emerged capable of thinking, building telescopes, writing poetry, and wondering about its own origin…</p><p>that alone is already a <strong>statistical miracle</strong>.</p><p>But that somewhere else there might exist another intelligent civilisation, on another planet… that survived its own cataclysms… passed through its own dark ages… invented its own science and technology…</p><p>and that <strong>at this very cosmic instant</strong> is sufficiently close and sufficiently alive to hear us…</p><p>That would not be winning a lottery.</p><p>That would be <strong>winning every lottery in the universe simultaneously</strong>.</p><p>Because the problem is not only the distance between the stars.</p><p>The real problem… is <strong>time</strong>.</p><p>The universe may be filled with civilizations. But each arrives at the door <strong>at a different moment</strong>.</p><p>And curiously…</p><p>something very similar occurs in human life.</p><p>The possibilities are many. People are many.</p><p>Some more mature. Others still in formation.</p><p>But the truly improbable thing… is not that they exist.</p><p>The truly improbable thing is <strong>to coincide</strong>.</p><p>I am merely an ordinary human being.</p><p>One more person walking across his own small personal Manhattan.</p><p>Yet I have had the statistical—almost cosmic—fortune of encountering someone who is far from ordinary.</p><p>And since then, even after the inevitable cataclysms of life…</p><p>I continue to believe in the same principle the universe itself seems to follow:</p><p>the natural evolution of things, the meeting of different worlds, and the mysterious beauty of improbable coincidences.</p><p>Because sometimes…</p><p>when two stories meet in the same place and at the same instant…</p><p>something rare does not happen.</p><p>Something <strong>astronomically improbable</strong> happens.</p><p>And yet…</p><p>it happens.</p>

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February 6, 2026

The Black Sheep, the Work-Centric Society, and Pre-Adamic Civilisations

<p>We live in a work-centric society.<br>So profoundly work-centric that, before asking how you are, people ask what you are.</p><p>And what you are always means the same thing:<br>— What do you do for a living?<br>— What did you study?<br>— What are you going to work as?</p><p>How you feel is irrelevant.<br>Which is why the question “How are you?” is almost always answered with a courteous lie:<br>“Very well, thank you.”</p><p>In this society, there are three great groups.</p><p>The first:<br>Those who have never worked six hours a day for a continuous month<br>because they were born exceedingly wealthy.<br>They are admired by some, envied by others,<br>and forgiven by everyone.</p><p>The second:<br>Those who have never worked six hours a day for a continuous month<br>because they were born desperately poor.<br>They are neither admired nor envied.<br>They are invisible…<br>or worse: inconvenient.</p><p>And the third group is us.<br>The rest of us.<br>Those who do work.<br>Those who hold the scenery upright.</p><p>As the eight-hour workday begins to fracture,<br>I shall use six hours a day as a reasonable average.<br>Six hours of life surrendered each day.<br>Six hours multiplied by months.<br>By years.<br>By decades.</p><p>And here emerges the central paradox of the work-centric society:<br>the two groups who do not work are permitted everything.<br>They may be brilliant geniuses<br>or profoundly mediocre.<br>They may think, speak, rant, create, fail.</p><p>But the group that does work…<br>is permitted almost nothing.</p><p>It is convenient — rather like pest control —<br>that this vast group think as little as possible.<br>And if it thinks, that it speaks little.<br>And if it speaks, that it does so quietly.</p><p>This is why football — or soccer — in much of the world,<br>the NBA, the NFL and the MLB in the United States,<br>rugby and cricket in countries once colonised by England,<br>function as the first restraint<br>against the most dangerous risk to power structures:<br>thinking…<br>and saying what one thinks.</p><p>If that proves insufficient, religion follows.<br>And if prayer fails,<br>we fill your home with alcohol<br>or your pockets with drugs.</p><p>Thus it becomes clear why speaking in platitudes is so well regarded,<br>and why refusing to do so is so poorly received.</p><p>As an antidote, this podcast exists.<br>Manual of the Lucid Misfit was designed to articulate the discomforts of ordinary life,<br>so that being the black sheep of the family<br>or of the neighbourhood<br>is not such a solitary experience.</p><p>Social gatherings — physical or virtual —<br>are the finest laboratory in which to verify all of this.<br>As long as we speak of the predictable, everything flows.<br>But let someone mention an uncomfortable subject,<br>and the gathering implodes,<br>while those who dared to speak<br>are symbolically crucified.</p><p>I am increasingly convinced that political allegiance<br>is chosen like a football club.<br>In childhood.<br>And never changed.</p><p>Gender can be changed.<br>Religion as well.<br>But the club… never.</p><p>In countries ruled by the round ball,<br>one’s club is a prenatal identity.</p><p>The football divide is as irreconcilable<br>as left and right,<br>as the Grammy winners of 2026,<br>anti-vaxxers,<br>climate-change deniers,<br>flat-earthers,<br>and those who listen to music other than our own.</p><p>And I am increasingly certain of something even more unsettling:<br>at any moment now, there will be an official presentation<br>of at least one superior non-human race.</p><p>I do not know whether it comes from beyond the planet<br>or from deep layers of time.<br>But it exists.<br>From pre-Adamic eras.</p><p>A race that has always accompanied human evolution<br>and has already designed a communication agenda<br>so that, when it appears,<br>it does not overly impress<br>either those who never worked six hours a day<br>or those of us who did.</p><p><br></p><p>The author offers more than 13,000 posts drawn from his personal history on his blog, freely accessible at <a href="http://pablomera.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><u>http://pablomera.blogspot.com</u></a></p><p>And he invites listeners to write to him at <a href="mailto:tromp@hotmail.com" target="_blank">tromp@hotmail.com</a>.]</p>

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We live in an era which, rather than expanding our horizons, seems increasingly intent on narrowing the life of the mind.

We have, in effect, returned to a digital telegraph: curt lines flung across glowing screens.


The author is Pablo Mera, - Pablo E.M.G. to the English-speaking world—though a few old friends still call him “Trompo.” He adores Metallica and Oasis, he is still a rugger at heart, blood type A+, and he published over 13,000 posts upon his blog: http://pablomera.blogspot.com.

You may write to him at mailto:tromp@hotmail.com

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